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Well actually, I find it amusing that anyone would waste bandwidth having a hissy fit over how another Christian worships. You want to call yourself any of the above names, that’s your right. I would tell you that you are wrong but I think it’s one of those “do these pants make me look fat?” Your statement is loaded.

Madam, you seem to be operating under a false assumption. I have never at this forum attacked how Catholics worship. I have not attacked the Pope. I have not attacked the magisterium. What I have attacked and will continue to attack is the notion that G-d is either a liar (G-d forbid!) or makes mistakes (G-d forbid!). I challenge you to go back and examine all my posts on Catholic topics and you will find they have all been on this one topic.

On those occasions when I have made negative statements about mariology, transubstantiation, or marian apparitions or miracles it was to point out the hypocrisy of believing in these while dismissing Biblical miracles as "primitive" or "naive." And as you probably know, the Catholic Church is full of people who believe the sun danced at Fatima but who insist that Balaam's donkey never spoke (since donkey's don't talk!) or that the sun stood still for Joshua.

I must wonder why you would take the attitude you have when I have on this thread (and to a great extent on this entire forum) limited my criticisms of the Catholic Church and of Catholics to this attitude towards the Bible. Furthermore, you have certainly read the comments of your co-religionists on this forum defending evolution and partial inerrancy and you have said nothing to disassociate yourself from them, so I assume you know what I've been saying. I'm sorry you have chosen to ignore this and treat me as if I have been attacking the mass or some other doctrine I'm not interested in.

Here and there I have encountered Catholics who do indeed believe in total Biblical inerrancy (wideawake being one of these). The rest of you either reject total Biblical inerrancy or else say nothing on the subject, leading me to believe it isn't a big deal to you. To which I can only react by wondering why you use the Bible at all if you find it so threatening and/or untrustworthy.

Thank you for understanding.